Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1193, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- January 29, 2026 - January 29, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 226 | Chetham (James) | The Angler's Vade Mecum: or, A Compendious, |
1681 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 227 | Edmonds (Harfield H.) | and Norman N. Lee. Brook and River Trouting, |
Bradford | 1916 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,757.68 |
| 228 | Walton (Izaak) | and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, [with] The Life of Isaac Walton by Thomas Zouch (1825), |
1824 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,338.83 | |
| 229 | Halford (Frederic M.) | Dry Fly Entomology, |
1897 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,987.04 | |
| 230 | Halford (Frederic M.) | Modern Development of the Dry Fly, |
1910 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,338.83 | |
| 231 | West (Leonard) | The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, |
St. Helens | 1912 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,514.09 |
| 232 | British Sports and Sportsmen |
[1908-35]. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,811.78 | ||
| 233 | Lowther (Lancelot, 6th Earl of Lonsdale) and others, editors. | The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes, |
1929-[40]. | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 12,204.36 | |
| 234 | Munnings (Sir Alfred) | [The Autobiography], |
1951-52 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 235 | Rondelet (Guillaume) | Libri de piscibus marinis, |
Lyon | 1554-1555. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,932.94 |
| 236 | Olina (Giovanni Pietro) | Uccelliera overo discorso della natura e proprieta di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, |
Rome | 1622. | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 237 | Highgrove Florilegium (The), Watercolours depicting Plants grown in the Garden at Highgrove, |
2008 | GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | GBP 6,974.10 | ||
| 238 | Meredith (Louisa Anne Twamley) | Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania, |
1860 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 614.68 | |
| 239 | Sowerby (James) | and James Edward Smith. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, |
1790 -1814. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,514.09 | |
| 240 | Sowerby (James) | Account Book for the years of 1805-6, |
1805-6. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,230.63 | |
| 241 | Gerard (John) | The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, |
1633 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,493.52 | |
| 242 | Swammerdam (Jan) | Ephemeri Vita. Of afbeeldingh van 's Menschen Leven, Vertoont in de Wonderbaarlijcke en nooyt gehoorde Historie van het vliegent ende een-dagh-levent Haft of Oever-aas, |
Amsterdam | 1675. | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,459.99 |
| 243 | [Apianus (Petrus)] | Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis, |
[Venice] | 1533. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 244 | Chanute (Octave Alexander) | Gliding Experiments, offprint from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, |
[Chicago | 1897 | GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 245 | Cauchy (Augustin-Louis) | Sur la Theorie de la Lumiere, |
[?Budweis or Prague] | August 1836 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 966.47 |
| 246 | Lamarck (Jean-Baptiste de Monet de) | Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques, |
Paris | [1794]. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 247 | Darwin (Charles) | The Descent of Man, |
1871 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,493.52 | |
| 248 | Darwin (Charles) | The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; The Descent of Man |
1884; 1899 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 562.61 | |
| 249 | Hawking (Stephen).- Israelian (Garik) and Brian May, editors. | STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space, |
2014; 2016 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,811.78 | |
| 250 | Herschel (Sir John F. W.) | Collection of 69 offprints, |
[1813-50]. | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 26,152.56 |
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